Sentence Examples with the word hurrying

March 17, 2018All Dictionary

The explanation of the fact was unimportant compared to the fact itself and the need of hurrying on.

It is written in pure Baiswari or Eastern Hindi, in stanzas called chaupais, broken by dohas or couplets, with an occasional soratha and chhand - the latter a hurrying metre of many rhymes and alliterations.

This did not suit him, but from March 1883 to July 1884 he was at home at a charming house called La Solitude, above Hyeres; this was in many ways to be the happiest station in the painful and hurrying pilgrimage of Stevenson's life.

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And as soon as the officer let go of the gate handle she turned and, hurrying away on her old legs, went through the back yard to the servants' quarters.

He rendered important services in hurrying forward troops in 1861, was appointed major-general of volunteers in June 1861, and during the Civil War commanded successively the department of Maryland (July 1861-May 1862), Fortress Monroe (May 1862-July 1863), and the department of the East (July 1863-July 1865).

King Richard, hurrying back broke from Ireland, landed at Milford Haven just in time lands to learn.

Then came the distant report of a shot, and our troops could be seen hurrying to the crossing.

Some of them were talking (he heard Russian words), others were eating bread; the more severely wounded looked silently, with the languid interest of sick children, at the envoy hurrying past them.

She changed quickly into dry clothing before hurrying down the back stairwell.

His subjects vied with each other in hurrying soldiers to his standard, and in a few weeks the great Turkish host was in full retreat.